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Jean Heywood

Jean Heywood, a school teacher from Wicomoco, discusses her father’s country store, Gloucester Courthouse during World War II, everyday shopping at Morgan’s Drugstore and Tucker’s store, and her husband’s career as a car salesman.

http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/05/46/87/00001/TMP%20108%20Jean%20Heywood%207-10-2016.mp3

Jean Heywood Oral History Transcript

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